Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-08-27

| pear me. Mt. bearing, now SnOulQ i KNOW?
| Sh-, please don't make noise, ain waiting for
| my cue
as she here with you to-nighti- he asked
| sternly.
| s'N0 OF course not: can't you see by the pro-
! gram? You really must not talk so loudly ut the
SIDE II y6q want to see the beee am sure my
| you are trading on nv train: and do be quiet;
every word can be heard and l Shall miss my
| cue
'.Mrs. Caringt0n. II you won't tell me where my
vile Is will follow you to the stage and you
there; | trusted her in your care-you are re-
spOnSibIe for her. She told me she was y laying
| here tonight, and viii know whore she Is.
] moment later ana the amateur performance
would have been awakened from its dead level Of
practiSed mediocrity by a dash Of drama In real
earnest Mrs. Darlington had swept0n tn the stage
In Storm o. irlendy applause, ana Tom bearing
and he himself drawn persuaSiyely on one side by
| the Honorable Mrs Mordaunt.
She was 4 woman OF the world, hut she had some
heart little battered possibly, but still In work
| ing order.
aGo home your wife won't be long," she said.
| 'She was going to play I'm the farce, and came
down with Us, but was taken so i'll with nervous
headache she was obliged TO go back to town. MY
sister was with her. and IL she isn't at home when
you get there will be either at my sisters house
YOU"
had believed his wife, but he did not believe Mrs.
Mordaunt, and procuring program he held 1t be-
| fore her.
''If my wife was going to play In the farce, why
| isn't her name printed here?" he asked in loud
harsh tones ''Wlat is captain VernOn'S ad-
dresS?"
| His voice penetrated to the audience
cries OF "Hush!' and ''Turn him Quit" began to
make themselves heard. The whole strength OF
the amateur company vainly endeavored to calm
or 10 eject him, and shortly after 10 O'Clock Tom
bearings cab drew up before Captain vernon's
They were snug bachelors rooms, hung with
racing pictures and pretty womens portraits, with
WHIPS and Tolls The remains of dainty supper
lay on the table, and the waiter had just carried
Ia a fresh supply OF champagne. In a deep ar1n-
chair by the fire sat Marion Dearibg and On the
arm of 1t Captain Vernon leant as, caressing her
hdlr With one hand, with the other he offered her
glass OF wine.
Take some more champagne, darling" he was
SAYING; ut will cheer you up"
The words We're scarcely out OF his lips when the
glass ne had held WAS flung against his face and he
himself hurled to the ground and logged merci-
lesoiy with one OF his hunting crops, snatched
from It's place on the wall Captain vernon was
Tall but not muscular. The attack was unex-
Pected and his opponent mad with fury. The
noise OF the struggle and MariOn's wild shrieks
Drought some half dozen people on the scene but
not before Tom had flung the Captain with all his
force face downward into the crate, and then,
OVerturning the supper table and extinguiShing
the light, escaped In the confusion and darkness,
tnruSting aside the wretched woman who would
nave chung round his feet.
Then he jumped into cab and drove back to
That home which was never more to be gladdened
by the presence of q wife.
There Was no divorce no action for assault,
although each member OF the Macreadys and
every one OF Captain Vernon's personal friends
tude, and experienced good deal OF diSappOint-
ment, not untinged with Indignation, at finding
no news OF the bearing scandal
Captain Vernon went abroad after declining to
see Mrs. bearing and returning her letters un-
opened. When he came back in two years time
his Trends. male and female, delighted. to
him, and the latter voted him "nore irresiStibly
wicked than ever He has a deep scar in his
cheek which he accounts for as being the result OF
q uuel with Il NienneSe student, and scarcely any
one knows a champagne glass had more to do with
IL.
Gated their occasionally high sense OF morality by
dropping Mrs bearing. IL decided that she
threw herself at captain Vernon; Mrs. Nor
daunt opinei That "a woman ought to be able to
take care OF neTSelf, proposition with which the
other ladies entirely cOncurred. In such society
periodical hts O phriSaical virtue clear the moral
atmosphere. ami Mrs. bearing was chosen the
especial social Scapeguat ON whose pretty head
were heaped the sins and ollies OF the community.
SO. deserted by the women to whose influence
she owed her miSrortunes, shut out by the man
she had deceived and scorned by the man She
had loved, Marion bearing lived for time in
dreary reInnIs.ful ObScur1ty on small allowance
paid her monthly by her husbands solicitor.
Then she obtained employ Hlent in an orderly West
Fad theater, but found the professional stage
under these auspices, utterly lacking in the ex-
citeinent and luxury TO which her amateur eX-
periences bal accustomed her, that she soon tired
OF III anu dfiied INTO the cbOFttSeS various other
theaters devoted TO burleoque and comic opera.
Naturally sweet, afettioG.ste AMI silly, she is
popl.hr out Ill at case ainons the class now sur
rounulng heT. Her one desire Is 10 forget; her
one dread. solitude, with Its companion Thought.
Every moment OF her life She tries TO ill with
fresh eNcltcicnts, fresh pltioIs: and the END
1, not 10 DE Thought OF, not To be spoken or here
ActnWbiie pt.lD hard-Ieatured inan with pre@
maturtly white h'lr spends his evenings alone III
the little house at Cheise.,, except those rare
OCCASIONS WutR Il few friends come in to smoke
pipe Wild him. Then SUCH ;.s know him weI warn
the rest that unless they wish their stoiid host
suddenly To Change into dangerous mailman
they must avoid all reference TO women, 10 tile
stage but, more Than all, 10 amateur tneItricais.
A dreary safe or things and an odd story The
strangest part whereof is that it Is absolutely